Not long after,
Liu Yan came before Liu Tianyuan and asked, "Father, why did you call for me?"
Liu Tianyuan smiled. "Do you remember Fang Chen, the one I told you about last time?"
Liu Yan knitted her brows and said impatiently, "Why are you bringing him up again? I told you, he's not good enough."
Liu Tianyuan shook his head. "Do you know that he displayed extraordinary skill escorting that shipment this time and saved quite a few people's lives? Even Old Master Liu couldn't stop praising him."
Liu Yan's mouth fell slightly open in surprise. "Even Old Master Liu praised him without end?"
Liu Yan naturally knew Old Master Liu's temperament as well.
For Fang Chen to make even him praise him aloud—could Fang Chen truly possess some remarkable ability?
Seeing her surprise, Liu Tianyuan smiled as well and continued,
"Although Fang Chen is in the Skin and Muscle Realm, his strength isn't something an ordinary person of that realm can compare with. He's one of the cream of the crop. How could someone like that still be unworthy of you?"
Liu Yan raised her delicate brows and asked again, "Is he really that powerful?"
Liu Tianyuan smiled and nodded.
To be honest, Liu Yan was indeed somewhat tempted. After all, Fang Chen's looks weren't bad...
But... the image of Young Master Li from the Flying Eagle Martial Arts School suddenly flashed through Liu Yan's mind.
He was handsome and imposing, heroic and extraordinary, and not the slightest bit inferior to Fang Chen!
Not to mention that Young Master Li was the young master of the Flying Eagle Martial Arts School. His background was fundamentally different from that of a pauper like Fang Chen.
His bone structure was also top-grade—nothing Fang Chen could compare with!
So what if Fang Chen was impressive now? Once Young Master Li broke through to the Sinew and Bone Realm, Fang Chen wouldn't stand a chance against him.
Liu Yan compared Fang Chen with her ideal husband in her heart and found that Fang Chen still fell far short.
She smiled at Liu Tianyuan and said, "Father, you know that every realm in martial dao differs by a great distance."
"Although Fang Chen seems impressive in the Skin and Muscle Realm, he can't even break through to the Sinew and Bone Realm. What's there to brag about?"
Liu Tianyuan slammed his palm on the table,
"You! You're going to be the death of me! Do you think people in the Sinew and Bone Realm are so easy to find? Why would someone in the Sinew and Bone Realm marry you? Who do you think you are?!"
Liu Yan was startled and backed away several steps, tears instantly welling in her eyes.
"Are you even my father...?"
Liu Tianyuan was speechless for a long while after hearing this. In the end, he let out a long sigh.
"Ah, forget it. Just don't regret this later."
Liu Yan gave a light snort and left at once.
Beneath the night sky,
Fang Chen was practicing the Gale Saber Technique in the courtyard.
After he returned, Father Fang and Fang Ting had bombarded him with questions. Only after confirming that he had no injuries did they finally stop.
They asked a few more questions about the escort mission, and Fang Chen answered everything he could.
As for the encounter with demons along the road, Fang Chen skipped over it entirely, lest they worry themselves needlessly.
Fang Chen swung his long saber and focused on practicing the Gale Saber Technique.
But at this moment,
beneath the night sky, things were far from peaceful not far from the Fang Family residence.
In a corner of Mud Alley,
a man and a woman were chasing a thin figure ahead of them.
The thin man glanced back and shouted angrily,
"Damn it, is there any need to chase me so tightly?! The Golden Scale Pavilion has so many treasures—what would it cost you to give me one?!"
The woman chasing him sneered. "Hmph, do you think the Golden Scale Pavilion is somewhere a petty thief like you can enter and leave as you please? You stole something and still want to settle this peacefully? Dream on!"
The man beside her said, "Xu Yanfeng, stop running. It won't do you any good no matter where you go. We've already marked you with insect scent. Wherever you go, we'll find you!"
Xu Yanfeng's heart jolted. He snapped furiously, "I was wondering how you found me! You're truly damn despicable and shameless!"
The two pursuers took the chance to accelerate, and they soon closed in on Xu Yanfeng!
Xu Yanfeng had no choice but to turn and counterattack, but the two attacked too fiercely. He simply couldn't withstand them.
Soon, several more wounds appeared on Xu Yanfeng's body.
The two knew that Xu Yanfeng was wearing Cloud Silkworm Silk Armor, so they specifically attacked areas outside his torso.
Blood streamed from Xu Yanfeng's arms and thighs,
and his right knee had taken a heavy blow, making it difficult for him to move.
He reached into his robes, only for his right hand to be struck again!
But he had already pulled something from his robes. Poison powder suddenly flew toward the two of them, and their eyes instantly burned with searing pain!
Xu Yanfeng laughed smugly and swiftly fled while their vision was impaired.
But at this moment,
Xu Yanfeng's right leg was already seriously injured, and every movement brought excruciating pain.
His right hand had nearly been hacked in a vital spot by the two of them, and blood was now pouring out nonstop.
Xu Yanfeng felt slightly dizzy and thought, This is bad!
"No, I have to find somewhere to treat these wounds roughly first. At the very least, I need to stop the bleeding, or I'll definitely die here!"
His gaze landed on a residence in front of him.
It was silent inside. Everyone should have gone to sleep.
Xu Yanfeng planned to go inside and find some clean cloth to bandage himself with. If there was any golden wound medicine, that would be even better.
The residence looked quite large. Perhaps it really did have some golden wound medicine.
Wealthy households usually kept some of that kind of medicine in storage.
Xu Yanfeng came to the door and pulled an iron wire from his robes.
As a grand thief, picking locks was basic operation.
After picking the lock, he gently pushed the door open to avoid making a sound.
Just when he thought he had succeeded,
a handful of lime suddenly flew toward his eyes!
Xu Yanfeng instinctively shut his eyes, but the lime had already seeped into them!
His eyes burned with searing pain, just like those of the two people who had pursued him moments ago.
He never would have thought that the trick he had just used against his enemies would now be turned around and used on him!
It was an utter disgrace!
At this moment, standing before Xu Yanfeng,
the person who had thrown the lime was none other than Fang Chen, who had been waiting for him for quite some time.
He had noticed earlier that the surrounding activity was somewhat unusual.
At this hour, it was already very late.
Everything around him should have been deathly quiet, with only the sound of him practicing his saber.
Yet Fang Chen had heard unusual noises from this direction,
so he stopped practicing and grew vigilant, preparing all kinds of nasty surprises in passing.
He hadn't expected someone to really try picking the lock! Fang Chen had instinctively thrown the lime straight at him!
Fang Chen drew his saber.
While he was down, finish him!
Hack him!
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